This excerpt, "Criteria Queries," from James Elliot's Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook, shows you how to use simple criteria, compound criteria, apply criteria to associations, and query by example using Hibernate.

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James Elliott is a senior software engineer at Berbee, with fifteen years of professional experience as a systems developer.